㈠ 50個單詞的英語小故事
A Good Boy
Little Robert asked his mother for two cents. "What did you do with the money I gave you yesterday?"
"I gave it to a poor old woman," he answered.
"You're a good boy," said the mother proudly. "Here are two cents more. But why are you so interested in the old woman?"
"She is the one who sells the candy."
好孩子
小羅伯特向媽媽要兩分錢。
「昨天給你的錢干什麼了?」
「我給了一個可憐的老回太婆,」他回答答說。 「你真是個好孩子,」媽媽驕傲地說。「再給你兩分錢。可你為什麼對那位老太太那麼感興趣呢?」
「她是個賣糖果的。」
㈡ 簡單的英語小故事50個單詞左右
One day,a little monkey is playing by the well. 一天,有隻小猴子在井邊玩兒。
He looks in the well and shouts : 它往井裡一瞧,高喊道:
「Oh!My god!The moon has fallen into the well!」 「噢!我的天!月亮掉到井裡頭啦!」
An older monkeys runs over, takes a look,and says, 一隻大猴子跑來一看,說,
「Goodness me!The moon is really in the water!」 「糟啦!月亮掉在井裡頭啦!」
And olderly monkey comes over. 老猴子也跑過來。
He is very surprised as well and cries out: 他也非常驚奇,喊道:
「The moon is in the well.」 「糟了,月亮掉在井裡頭了!」
A group of monkeys run over to the well . 一群猴子跑到井邊來,
They look at the moon in the well and shout: 他們看到井裡的月亮,喊道:
「The moon did fall into the well!Come on!Let』get it out!」
「月亮掉在井裡頭啦!快來!讓我們把它撈起來!」
Then,the oldest monkey hangs on the tree up side down ,with his feet on the branch .
然後,老猴子倒掛在大樹上,
And he pulls the next monkey』s feet with his hands. 拉住大猴子的腳,
All the other monkeys follow his suit, 其他的猴子一個個跟著,
And they join each other one by one down to the moon in the well.
它們一隻連著一隻直到井裡。
Just before they reach the moon,the oldest monkey raises his head and happens to see the moon in the sky, 正好他們摸到月亮的時候,老猴子抬頭發現月亮掛在天上呢
He yells excitedly 「Don』t be so foolish!The moon is still in the sky!」
它興奮地大叫:「別蠢了!月亮還好好地掛在天上呢!」
㈢ 英語趣味小短文(帶翻譯)
1、Cat and Mice 貓和老鼠
Mrs Brown went to visit one of her friend and carried a small boxwith holes punched in the top.
"What's in your box?" asked the friend.
"A cat," answered Mrs Brown. "You see I've beendreaming about mice at night and I'm so scared! This cat is to catchthem."
"But the mice are only imaginary," said the friend.
"So is the cat," whispered Mrs Brown.
布朗夫人去拜訪一位朋友,她拿著一個頂部扎滿了小眼兒的盒子。「盒子里裝的是什麼?」朋友問道。「一隻小貓,」布朗夫人回答說,「你知道我晚上睡覺總夢見老鼠,我非常害怕。這只貓可以抓住那些老鼠。」「可老鼠都是假想的呀。」朋友說。「小貓也是假想的。」布朗夫人小聲說道。
2、I think that I'm a chicken 我是一隻雞
Psychiatrist: What's your problem?
Patient: I think I'm a chicken.
Psychiatrist: How long has this been going on?
Patient: Ever since I was an egg!
精神病醫師:你哪裡不舒服?
病人:我認為我是一隻雞。
精神病醫師:這種情況從什麼時候開始的?
病人:從我還是一隻蛋的時候開始的。
3、I Am Acting Like a Lady 我要表現得像位女士
One day when women's dresses were on sale at the FarEast DepartmentStore, a dignified middle-aged man decided to get his wife a piece. But he soonfound himself being battered by frantic women.
He stood it as long as he could; then, with head lowered and armsflailing, he plowed through the crowed.
"You there!" challenged a thrill voice. "Can't youact like a gentleman?"
"Listen," he said, "I have been acting like agentleman for an hour. From now on, I am acting like a lady."
一天,遠東百貨公司的女裝大減價,一位高貴的中年男士想給太太買一件。可是,沒過多久,他發現自己已被瘋狂的女人沖得踉踉蹌蹌。
他竭力忍耐著。後來,他低下頭,揮動雙臂,擠過人群。
「你幹嘛?」有人尖聲叫道,「你難道不能表現得像位紳士嗎?」
「聽著,」他說,「我過去一小時一直表現得像一位紳士。從現在起,我要表現得像位女士。」
4、The Broom Seller and the Barber 賣掃帚的人和理發師
A man who sold brooms went into a barber's shop to get shaved. Thebarber bought one of his brooms, and, when he had shaved him, asked for theprice of it.
"Two pence," said the man.
"No, no," said the barber, "I will give you a penny,and if you do not think that enough, you may take your broom again."
The man took it, and asked what he had to pay for his shave.
"A penny." said the barber.
"I will give you a half-penny, and if that is not enough, youmay put my beard on again."
一個賣掃帚的人去一家理發店修面。理發師向他買了一把掃帚。當理發師給他修完面後,問了一下掃帚的價錢。
賣掃帚的人說:「兩便士。」
「不,不。」理發師說,「我只出一便士。如果你認為不夠的話,可以把掃帚拿回去。」
賣掃帚的人取回了掃帚,隨後問修面要付多少錢。
賣掃帚的人說:「我只能給你半個便士,如果你認為不夠的話,你可以把鬍子再替我裝上。」
5、Want a Day Off 想請一天假
Smith goes to see his supervisor in the front office."Boss," he says, "We're doing some heavy house-cleaning at hometomorrow, and my wife needs me to help with the attic and the garage, movingand hauling stuff." "We're short-handed, Smith," the bossreplies. "I can't give you the day off." "Thanks, boss,"says Smith, "I knew I could count on you!"
一天,史密斯去見他的客戶部領導。「老闆,」斯密斯說,「我們家明天要大搞清潔,我老婆需要我回去幫忙清潔閣樓和車庫,搬搬挪挪什麼的。」「斯密斯啊,你也知道,我們現在人手已經不夠了。」老闆說,「明天的假我是沒法給你批了」。「多謝老闆,」史密斯說,「我果然沒信錯人。」
6、I Lost 我輸了
It was at a five o』clock tea. A young man came tothe hostess to apologize for his lateness.
「So good of you to come, Mr. Jones, and where isyour brother?」
「You see we're very busy in the office and only oneof us could come, so we tossed up for it.」
「How nice! And so original, too! And you won?」
「No,」 said the young man absently, 「I lost.」
五點鍾,下午茶的時間,一個年輕人因為遲到向女主人致歉。
「您能來可真好,瓊斯先生,您的兄弟在哪兒呢?」
「您知道我們公司很忙,我們倆只能來一個,所以就擲幣來決定由誰來。」
「太有意思了!還那麼有創意!那您贏了?」
「不,」年輕人心不在焉地說,「我輸了。」
7、The Old Cat 老貓
An old woman had a cat. The cat was very old; she could not run quickly, and she could not bite, because she was so old.One day the old cat saw a mouse; she jumped and caught the mouse. But she could not bite it; so the mouse got out of her mouth and ran away, because the cat could not bite it.
Then the old woman became very angry because the cat had not killed the mouse. She began to hit the cat. The cat said, "Do not hit your old servant. I have worked for you for many years,and I would work for you still, but I am too old. Do not be unkind to the old,but remember what good work the old did when they were young."
一位老婦有隻貓,這只貓很老,它跑不快了,也咬不了東西,因為它年紀太大了。一天,老貓發現一隻老鼠,它跳過去抓這只老鼠,然而,它咬不住這只老鼠。因此,老鼠從它的嘴邊溜掉了,因為老貓咬不了它。於是,老婦很生氣,因為老貓沒有把老鼠咬死。她開始打這只貓,貓說:「不要打你的老僕人,我已經為你服務了很多年,而且還願意為你效勞,但是,我實在太老了,對年紀大的不要這么無情,要記住老年人在年青時所做過的有益的事情。
8、There Good Friends 三個好朋友
One day, a monkey rides his bike near the river. This time he sees a lion under a tree. The lion runs at him. He is afraid and falls into the river. He can』t swim. He shouts. The rabbit hears him. He jumps into the river. The rabbit swims to the monkey, but he can』t help him. Luckily, an elephant comes along. He is very strong. He helps the rabbit and monkey. Three friends are very happy. They go to the elephant』s home. Then, three of them become good friends。
一天,一隻猴子在河邊騎車。這時他看見樹下有一隻獅子,獅子向他跑來。他非常的害怕,掉進河裡。他不會游泳,大叫起來。兔子聽見了,跳進水裡,但他卻沒有辦法救猴子。幸運的是,一隻大象過來了。大象非常強壯,救出了兔子和猴子。他們來到大象的家,在那裡吃了一頓大餐。從此他們成了好朋友。
㈣ 趣味英語小故事大約600個單詞的。
The House of 1000 Mirrors
千鏡之屋
Long ago in a small, faraway village, there was a place known as the House of 1000 Mirrors. A small, happy little dog learned of this place and decided to visit. When he arrived, he hounced happily up the stairs to the doorway of the house. He looked through the doorway with his ears lifted high and his tail wagging as fast as it could. To his great surprise, he found himself staring at 1000 other happy little dogs with their tails wagging just as fast as his. He smiled a great smile, and was answered with 1000 great smiles just as warm and firendly. As he left the House, he thought to himself, "This is a wonderful place. I will come back and visit it often."
In this same village, another little dog, who was not quite as happy as the first one, decided to visit the house. He slowly climbed the stairs and hung his head low as he looked into the door. When he saw the 1000 unfriendly looking dogs staring back at him, he growled at them and was horrified to see 1000 little dogs growling back at him. As he left, he thought to himself, "That is a horrible place, and I will never go back there again."
All the faces in the world are mirrors. What kind of reflections do you see in the faces of the people you meet?
趣味英語小故事:I've Passed My Right on to You
One day, Wilson was walking quietly along the road when somebody gave him a violent blow on the back of the neck. He looked behind him, and saw a young man whom he had never seen before.
「How dare you hit me like that!」shouted Wilson.
The young man said he had mistaken Wilson for a friend of his and that he thought Wilson was making a lot of noise about nothing.
This insult made Wilson even angrier, of course, and he at once arranged for the young man to be brought before a judge. There was nothing for the young man to do but to appear before the court.
Now, the judge who heard the case was a friend of the young man's father, and, although he pretended to be quite fair, he was thinking how he could avoid punishing the young man while at the same time not appearing unjust.
Finally he said to Wilson,「I understand your feelings in this matter very well. Would you be satisfied if I let you hit the young man as he hit you?」
Wilson said he would not be. The young man had insulted him and should be properly punished.
「Well, then,」said the judge to the young man,「I order you to pay ten liras to Wilson.」
Ten liras was very little for such a crime, but the young man did not have it with him, so the judge allowed him to go and get it.
Wilson waited for him to return with the money. He waited an hour, he waited two hours, while the judge attended to other business.
When it was nearly time for the court to close, Wilson chose a moment when the judge was especially busy, came up quietly behind him and hit him hard on the back of the neck. Then he said to him,「I am sorry, but I can't wait any longer. When the young man comes back, tell him that I have passed my right to the ten liras on to you.」
㈤ 急需英語趣味小故事(字數<130)
A Bet
Two pals are sitting in a pub watching the eleven-'clock news.A reporter comes on about a man threatening to jump from the 20th floor of a downtown building.One friend turns to the other and says,'I'll bet you ten bucks the guy doesn't jump.'
'It's a bet,' agrees his buddy.
A few minutes later, the man on the ledge jumps,so the loser hands his pal a $10 bill.'I can't take your money,'his friend admits.'I saw him jump earlier on the six-o'clock news.'
'Me,too,'says the other buddy.'But I didn't think he'd do it again.
打賭
兩個好朋友正坐在一家小酒館內觀看十一點的電視新聞。一則新聞報道說,有個男人威脅要從商業區一座大樓的二十層跳下去。一位朋友轉身對另一位說道:「我敢賭十塊錢,那傢伙不會往下跳。」
「賭就賭,」他的朋友欣然同意。
幾分鍾後,站在牆檐上的男人跳了下去,因而賭輸的那位交給他的朋友一張十元的鈔票。「我不能拿你的錢,」他的朋友承認道,「早在六點的新聞里,我就已見他跳下去了。」
「我也是,」另一位說,「可我想他不會再跳了!」
㈥ 40個趣味英語單詞
記得有一首歪詩寫到:一既然如此lazy, 每天何必study,娶個漂亮lady,生個胖胖baby.二兜里裝滿money,心情總是,每天都很sunny,變得更加beauty,快樂像個baby,一生一世lucky.1. <<怪貓的故事>>:有座 flat (公寓) 住個 cat (貓) 專吃 bat (蝙蝠,球拍)它很 fat (胖的) 還戴 hat (帽子) 養個 rat (老鼠) 天天 pat (輕拍) 和它 chat (聊天) 真是 that (那個) 不拘 format (形式,格式)
㈦ 英語趣味小故事<90
But the teacher cried
The six-year-old John was terribly spoiled . His father knew it, but his grandma doted on him. He hardly left her side. And when he wanted anything, he either cried or threw a temper tantrum. Then came his first day of school, his first day away from his grandmother's loving arms.
When he came home from school his grandma met him at the door.
"Was school all right?" she asked, "Did you get along all right? did you cry?"
"Cry?" John asked. "No, I didn't cry, but the teacher did!"
可是老師哭了
六歲的約翰嬌生慣養。他的父親知道這一點,可他的祖父母仍然寵著他。這孩子幾乎寸步不離他的祖母。他想要什麼不是哭,就是鬧。他第一天上學才離開祖母的懷抱。
約翰放學了,他奶奶在門口接他並問道:「學校怎麼樣?你過的好嗎?哭了沒有?」
「哭?」約翰問,「不,我沒哭,可老師哭了。」
Once there was an old man lived lonely in a small town,he was a good man.And one day,a yong man came to him and said:"Help me!I am very hungry,please give me some food."The old man smiled and gave him some food.The yong man ate the food ,then he left without saying "thank you".The next day,the same thing happened,and the follow days.After a week,when the yong man wanted left,the old man stopped him,the yong man thought for a while and then he asked:"Do you want money?I do not have money."The old man said:"No.I do not want any money.I just want you say:THANK YOU!"
A Bet
Two pals are sitting in a pub watching the eleven-'clock news.A reporter comes on about a man threatening to jump from the 20th floor of a downtown building.One friend turns to the other and says,'I'll bet you ten bucks the guy doesn't jump.'
'It's a bet,' agrees his buddy.
A few minutes later, the man on the ledge jumps,so the loser hands his pal a $10 bill.'I can't take your money,'his friend admits.'I saw him jump earlier on the six-o'clock news.'
'Me,too,'says the other buddy.'But I didn't think he'd do it again.
打賭
兩個好朋友正坐在一家小酒館內觀看十一點的電視新聞。一則新聞報道說,有個男人威脅要從商業區一座大樓的二十層跳下去。一位朋友轉身對另一位說道:「我敢賭十塊錢,那傢伙不會往下跳。」
「賭就賭,」他的朋友欣然同意。
幾分鍾後,站在牆檐上的男人跳了下去,因而賭輸的那位交給他的朋友一張十元的鈔票。「我不能拿你的錢,」他的朋友承認道,「早在六點的新聞里,我就已見他跳下去了。」
「我也是,」另一位說,「可我想他不會再跳了!」
Not long after an old Chinese woman came back to China from her visit to her daughter in the States, she went to a city bank to deposit the US dollars her daughter gave her. At the bank counter, the clerk checked each note carefully to see if the money was real. It made the old lady out of patience.
At last she could not hold any more, uttering. "Trust me, Sir, and trust the money. They are real US dollars. They are directly from America."
它們是從美國直接帶來的
一位中國老婦人在美國看望女兒回來不久,到一家市銀行存女兒送給她的美元。在銀行櫃台,銀行職員認真檢查了每一張鈔票,看是否有假。
這種做法讓老婦人很不耐煩,最後實在忍耐不住說:「相信我,先生,也請你相信這些鈔票。這都是真正的美元,它們是從美國直接帶來的。」
㈧ 求幾篇80個單詞左右的英語短文/小故事/幽默笑話
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「To bell the cat」 means to do something dangers, something that might end in disaster災難.
The expression comes from an old story. A family of mice老鼠 could not leave the hole to get food because of its fear of a cat. The mice decided to tie a bell around the cat's neck頸. The bell would ring as the cat moved. So the mice would always know where the cat was. All agreed it was a wonderful plan. That is until one wise old mouse asked, 「Who will bell the cat?」
Bell the cat,給貓繫上鈴鐺,這當然是沒什麼難的,但如果聯想一個古老的寓言里,「給貓繫上鈴鐺」還是一件很冒險的事情呢!故事的發生是這樣的:一窩老鼠因為怕貓,結果餓的要命。於是它們認為最好的辦法是在貓的脖子上系一個鈴鐺。這樣,鈴鐺一響,它們就知道貓來了。大家都覺得那是個好主意,但是有一隻老的、比較聰明的老鼠問,「誰去給貓繫上鈴鐺呢?」。當然「老鼠給貓系鈴鐺」是奢談,但如果真的有個老鼠敢為貓繫上鈴鐺,那它也算是「為救眾多的老鼠」而「奮不顧身」了,不過最終也是得到死無葬身之地的結果。不知道現在的社會中是不是:It's very diffcult to get a man who will bell the cat. 很難找到危險時刻能夠挺身而出的人。
所以bell the cat就表示「為眾人承擔風險、替別人冒險」的意思。
還有參考的:
「to be somebody's cat's paw.」成為某人的貓爪,被某人利用 It means to be fooled in to doing someone else's dirty work. It comes from an old story about a monkey. He wants some nuts heating on a fire. The monkey tries to steal the nuts. But he burns his fingers. So, he seizes the foot or paw of a cat and he uses that to pull the nuts out of the fire.
「Fat Cat」 describes someone who is rich. You often hear it ring political campaigns政治競選. Some fat cats give lots of money to politicians they hoped will be elected將被選舉上. American jazz musicians have used the word 「cat」 to mean a man.
A sharp cat is a man who is dressed in the latest fashionable clothing. The great American horn player Louis Armstrong used the expression this way many years ago. Armstrong said, 「I had on a new cowboy hat牛仔帽, a fine black suit, and new shining leather shoes皮鞋. I was a sharp cat.」